Teachers at a union event have been told that "there is no legal or even scientific definition of 'biological sex'" - despite ...

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A new ruling by the Supreme Court in the UK says the legal definition of a woman is rooted ... No ruling could tell me otherwise. Biology isn't the most important thing there either." ...

A new ruling by the Supreme Court in the UK says the legal definition of a woman is rooted in biological ... No ruling could tell me otherwise. Biology isn't the most important thing there either." ...

The group initially challenged the definition of the term "woman" as included in Scottish legislation from 2018, which set targets to increase the proportion of women serving on public bodies.

but it argued that “for women to have full rights and protection it is important that ‘sex’ is clarified as referring to biology.” Proponents of changing the legal definition of “woman ...

Specifically, they ruled that the definition of sex as used in the Equality Act 2010 is "binary" and decided by biology - a person who was not born as a biological female cannot obtain the legal ...

They said a "certified" definition of sex would weaken protections for lesbians, citing the example of lesbian-only spaces and associations as it would mean that a trans woman who was attracted to ...

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Scientists now recognize the existence of thousands of planets, but the IAU definition applies only ... be used as a starting point for creating a taxonomy for planets in general.

But pinning down the definition of a species ... argued in a paper that biology's ongoing explosion of newly described species — what he dubbed "taxonomy anarchy" — was making it challenging ...